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...politico's discovery that the federal political system is running virtually without patronage is akin to discovering that the corner grocery is running without the profit motive. Since Andrew Jackson overturned John Quincy Adams in 1828, political machines have been held together by the wholesale promise of jobs...
These doubting Thomases among the wiseacre theologians - do they actually lack the faith to believe the inspired Word of God as given in the Biblical account of the virgin birth of Christ? - even in this day of artificial insemination? Or is their attitude more akin to that of Pilate, who, for fear of the people (public opinion), acquiesced in the crucifixion of Christ? To deliberately fail to affirm the virgin birth is to deny that Jesus...
...that of children and primitives, to "the sanctified galleries of art museums." Says he: "When we consider that animal art has remained constant for so many, many centuries, perhaps we should give the animals their full due and recognize them as the perennial modernists. Our present-day art is akin to theirs in essence...
Despite the complexities, the bells have been played. But people who had expected sounds akin to a melodious carillon were soon disappointed. Russian bells are not strictly carillons. They were invented by monks several centuries ago, and only sixteen different pieces of music have been written for them. The sounds are strangely dissonant and have been described as both "Savagely primitive" and "godawful." Since few players know the original music, they must resort to improvising. This is especially difficult since, according to the terms of the gift, the bells must be played in the Russian manner. When the monks rang...
...optimum of House spirit has always been something of a question. Lowell often seemed intent on producing something akin to the loyalty attached to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, yet he always insisted on placing the College ahead of the single units making...